Re: Can we learn something from Easter Island?

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From: Don Libby
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 02:59

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"Don Quijote" <donquijote1111@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> "Don Libby" <never.spam@tds.net> wrote in message
> > "Don Quijote" <donquijote1111@yahoo.com> wrote in message >
> > > Easter Island's End
> > > By Jared Diamond, in Discover Magazine
> > > August 1995
> > > <...>By now the meaning of Easter Island for us should be chillingly
> > > obvious. Easter Island is Earth writ small.
> >
> > No, the meaning of Islas Pascuas for us is that isolation from trade
> > networks increases the risk of failure:  trade & migration increase a
> > population's resilliance to local resource supply shocks.
<...>
> I take it that the "isolation" could be *cultural* as well as
> *geographical*. I can think of a few examples then. Actually we are
> threatened by the two leading examples of it.
>
> I know this one is going to be hard... ;)

Congratulations on getting past the overly simplistic "Easter Island Earth"
analogy.  Now you're thinking.

Technology and organization mediate the relationship between the human
population and its environment.  Some combinations of technology and
organization may sustain the human population longer than others.

-dl

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